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'Dangerous' for YouTube to remove doctor's Senate testimony on COVID: Sen. Johnson

2021-02-04 | 🔗
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson blasts the censorship of the Senate hearing exploring cheaper drug treatments on 'Fox & Friends.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
And is unequivocally yes when and is unequivocally yes, when you look at the mortality and morbidity of this disease, which is unparalleled, we are seeing countless deaths and it is horrific the way they are dying and you look at safe and low cost agents. It seems a no brainer that you should try it. We have this data showing we have an effective treatment against this pandemic Todd for the longest time you Todd for the longest time. You could have gotten that doctor talking live on Youtube, removing that clip of a doctor testifying to the Senate about Covid 19 treatment. The chairman, who, let that hearing to bring the story Forward Senator RON Johnson reveals it is one of the videos that was deemed quote inappropriate, Senator Johnson wants the censorship should frighten us all frighten us all. What did you find out in that doctors? Testimony who welcomed all come? Ask me anything. I will show you the data. When did you find out that was taken down
since we had a hearing December eighth, I just watched it. Views rose to seven point: seven million half one million on my website. It wasnt passing the Youtube sensors. They took off of Fox news. It may be available on some sites with fewer views, but this is dangerous when you have censorship of information, Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court decision one hundred years ago that dealt with fallacies that might cause societal harm. There is more speech and not silence. We are moving in the opposite direction. Sean Jefferson did something similar Youtube said. We enforce community guidelines regardless of speaker and in that regard, to political viewpoints and
Covid 19 misinformation. We remove the two videos in question misinformation doctor telling about his studies on the results which, who is the doctor at Youtube, with the stethoscope, with the delete power with the delete power. The witness in my first hearing was fired by his institution because he testified Doctor Corey is ostracized and vilified. This makes no sense whatsoever. They have failed us in not spending money and time and effort to exploring repurposed cheap generic drugs. These drugs are twenty dollars for a treatment that economic incentive is a travesty, regardless and frontline doctors risking their lives, having courage and compassion that basically say: go
home, isolate your self, be afraid and save your life in the hospital. It is a dark chapter and it is a dark chapter and american journalism. You have to ask your doctor, you have to ask your doctor and something a patient ask for because of what the health, because of what the health agencies have done. An authorization for emergency use patients are asking to fill prescriptions and they wont there is a huge disincentive because hospital associations can get sued,
fewer doctors practicing medicine using off label prescription. Doctors have absolute prescription rights on any FDA food drugs, food drugs and how we advanced medicine, hydroxy. Clore Quinn, is primarily used for autoimmune diseases. It is how we advanced medicine in the midst of a pandemic. This is tragic and hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives because of this.
Transcript generated on 2021-02-05.